The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) held two formal graduation ceremonies for two groups of County firefighters that graduated this week from their respective paramedic training programs.
On Thursday, May 23, 2019, fifteen firefighters graduated from the Paramedic Training Institute as part of Class 249 in the Campus Theatre at El Camino College in Torrance.
The following morning, Friday, May 24, eighteen firefighters from the Paramedic Education Training program at the University of California, Los Angeles formally graduated at the Ronald F. Deaton Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Congratulations and best wishes to the following graduates:
Paramedic Training Institute Class 249
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Evan Atzmiller
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Steven Collisson
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Evan Dobias
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Garret Dvoracek
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Jason Gates
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Robert Gimenez Jr.
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Tyler Griffin
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Robert Heinzel
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Joel Mock
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Joseph Persichina
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Trenton Richert
• Fire Fighter Paramedic David Russell
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Daniel Sieber
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Daniel Skaggs
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Matthew Tooker
UCLA Paramedic Education Training Class 60
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Justin Ashley
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Benjamin Bennett
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Andrew Carnes
• Fire Fighter Paramedic David Choate
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Andrew Green
• Fire Fighter Paramedic JoMelissa Jackson
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Kevin Jimenez
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Robert Klang
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Seth Macleod
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Nicholas Medina
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Kyle Miller
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Cody O’Malley
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Aaron Pauls
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Sergio Ramirez
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Michael Rucker
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Derek Vaickus
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Aarin Wingfield
• Fire Fighter Paramedic Justin Yang
